Ok, here goes! Hope I do this right. Please bear with me as I learn the ropes of the forum.
I'm excited to finally be able to post to the forum. I've visited this forum as a guest throughout my recovery the past few months and I just wanted to say thank you! Thank you to the admins for providing this resource and thanks to all you posters for sharing your stories. You seem like a very kind and compassionate bunch.
I'll be 8-weeks post-op this Monday. I had a pretty standard fusion. I was on the fence about going for surgery as I had one of those curves that was slow to progress. But as I got older I experienced more and more pain and discomfort and I was tired of feeling like my scoliosis was always on my mind. Thought it would be good to do it while I was in decent shape.
I was very active before surgery (yoga, weights, cardio) and so my doctor and his team told me to expect a very quick recovery. He said my disks were in excellent condition which would hopefully bode well for the future. I think I went in naively overconfident and did not expect the drugs to do such a number on my system (realize now I should have expected this).
My recovery is going pretty well except for the fact it's coincided with a very terrible winter and so I've spent weeks pacing around the house when I should have been walking outside. I'm back to the gym now, though, and that's helped.
Sorry to be so long-winded!!! My question is regarding sitting. I am having a terrible time sitting! I'm back to work this week and if I didn't mainly work from home I don't know what I'd do. I realize it's normal to have problems sitting the first few months, but it seemed like most members of the forum, even those with lower fusions than mine, could handle it by 8 weeks. I have a ton of pain in my right butt and back (mainly the part of my back that was awakened by the surgery.)
Should I try practicing sitting longer and longer each day? Or should I avoid it until it's comfortable again?
Thanks so much!
Olivia
I'm excited to finally be able to post to the forum. I've visited this forum as a guest throughout my recovery the past few months and I just wanted to say thank you! Thank you to the admins for providing this resource and thanks to all you posters for sharing your stories. You seem like a very kind and compassionate bunch.
I'll be 8-weeks post-op this Monday. I had a pretty standard fusion. I was on the fence about going for surgery as I had one of those curves that was slow to progress. But as I got older I experienced more and more pain and discomfort and I was tired of feeling like my scoliosis was always on my mind. Thought it would be good to do it while I was in decent shape.
I was very active before surgery (yoga, weights, cardio) and so my doctor and his team told me to expect a very quick recovery. He said my disks were in excellent condition which would hopefully bode well for the future. I think I went in naively overconfident and did not expect the drugs to do such a number on my system (realize now I should have expected this).
My recovery is going pretty well except for the fact it's coincided with a very terrible winter and so I've spent weeks pacing around the house when I should have been walking outside. I'm back to the gym now, though, and that's helped.
Sorry to be so long-winded!!! My question is regarding sitting. I am having a terrible time sitting! I'm back to work this week and if I didn't mainly work from home I don't know what I'd do. I realize it's normal to have problems sitting the first few months, but it seemed like most members of the forum, even those with lower fusions than mine, could handle it by 8 weeks. I have a ton of pain in my right butt and back (mainly the part of my back that was awakened by the surgery.)
Should I try practicing sitting longer and longer each day? Or should I avoid it until it's comfortable again?
Thanks so much!
Olivia
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